Klaire LockheartCongratulations to all the students at USD who participated in the Stilwell exhibition!
Did you spot me in South Dakota Magazine?
If you’re an art teacher and need to earn grad credit to renew your teaching license, you should come paint with me at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota July 16-17, 2025. I’m teaching a fun workshop called “Sketching with Oils” during the Annual Arts Education Institute.
https://artssouthdakota.org/arts-education-institute/
Photo by Aaron C Packard.
Kenny Smith“Dakota” means “friends” or “Allie’s” to the Sioux.
Not so much the state, perhaps
“A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes.”
https://apnews.com/article/pronouns-tribal-affiliation-south-dakota-66efb8c6a3c57a6a02da0bf4ed575a5f
Pronouns, tribal affiliations forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails
A new South Dakota Board of Regents policy keeps employees from including their gender pronouns in school email signatures and other correspondence. That was adopted after Gov. Kristi Noem railed against “liberal ideologies” on college campuses. But the new policy is also keeping Native American employees from including their tribal affiliations in a state where Native American animosity over government actions remains high. Two University of South Dakota faculty members were warned in March to stop using their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in email signatures or face discipline. The American Association of University Professors says it's the first time it has learned of faculty at a public university being required to drop their preferred pronouns in correspondence.
MattMcNeilShowOn today's (5/6) show - I'm sorry #SoDak! Trump's paper trail! Texas is trying to force itself onto other states. Hound the racist! Rudy?!? Trump coming to MN...on Barron's graduation day? Math undoes the Uber/Lyft fear-mongering. Drunk Stillwater? https://soundcloud.com/user-587903571/the-matt-mcneil-show-may-6-2024
The Matt McNeil Show - May 6 2024
Kristi Noem's bad week continues; Trump trial updates; Trump to headline fundraiser dinner; Uber/Lyft reject state-brokered agreement on rideshare.
Once again, this is because she's from South Dakota.
There, she can say things like this and people will not fact-check her and will be impressed.
It's when her lies come out of her #SoDak bubble that she suddenly looks like an idiot. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi-noem-addresses-kim-jong-un-book-anecdote_n_6637a15de4b03d2898dd3fbe
First, sorry I missed this story.
#SoDak said nothing to see here, but judging from the evidence revealed in this story alone...many people are serving life terms with far less evidence against them.
Our 2 tiered legal system on full display! https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/unsealed-documents-in-closed-denny-sanford-child-porn-case/
Rocky
On today's (3/27) show - Mekeland supports a #Jan6thInsurrection-ist. 86 days into 2023 and the 89th school shooting. What AR-15s actually do. No thanks, #SoDak. Aaron Klemz from Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy on stopping insanity. More #Lazzaro testimony. MPD is responsible. https://soundcloud.com/user-587903571/the-matt-mcneil-show-march-27-2023
The Matt McNeil Show - March 27 2023
Minnesota state representative allegedly raising funds for a January 6 defendant; Nashville school shooting; what an AR bullet does to a body*; South Dakota town giving away lots of land; Aaron Klemz
deckchairs kittyThe Dakotas are ‘as bad as it gets anywhere in the world’ for COVID-19
South Dakota welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to a massive motorcycle rally this summer, declined to cancel the state fair and still doesn’t require masks. Now its hospitals are filling up and the state’s current COVID-19 death rate is among the worst in the world.
The situation is similarly dire in North Dakota, with the state’s governor recently moving to allow health care workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 to continue working if they don’t show symptoms… And now — after months of resisting a statewide mask mandate — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum changed course late Friday, ordering masks to be worn statewide…
North Dakota’s COVID-19 death rates in the past week are similar to the hardest hit countries in the world right now — Belgium, Czech Republic and Slovenia — according to Saturday New York Times data. That data also places South Dakota’s recent per capita deaths among the world’s highest rates.
“…You in the Dakotas … you knew it was coming… You denied it … even today you are denying it.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/14/covid-19-north-south-dakota-masks-kristi-noem/6237635002/